Artists and Artisans

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The arts is one of
the most significant
ways in which we
try to grapple with
how the present
unfolds.
 Art is not an outside, extra thing
but it is a question of doing things,
anything, well.
When a person is truly an ARTIST,
she/he becomes:
INVENTIVE, SEARCHING,
DARING, and SELF-EXPRESSIVE
 An artist DISTURBS, UPSETS,
ENLIGHTENS, and opens ways for
a better understanding.
 An artist does not try to close a
book but open ways for a better
understanding – that there are more
pages possible.
What is your passion?
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The Artists

HUMA 1a
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Artists are a part
of the major
milestones of
human
civilization.
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Fine artists invented a way to get
the three-dimensional world into
two dimensions and attach value to
their own ideas.
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With the passing of time, man
continued to utilize his
surroundings to create varying
expressions of ideas and feelings.
Bronze Age Arts
Middle Age Arts
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What is the effect of exploration of
immediate environs, trade, and
other experimentations, new
modes, media, and techniques?
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There would be a wide array of
artworks that instantiate the wealth
can be done when the artist’s vision
is tapped, harnessed, and realized.
 Who is the ARTIST?

The most integral development that allowed

this identity of an “artist” to fully emerge is
the systematization and sophistication that
his world (the art world) has become.
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CULTURE needs ART

ART needs CULTURE
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Think of a personal design for the
following:
CLOTH
HOUSE/BUILDING
BURIAL GROUNDS
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Think of a personal design for the
following:
CLOTH
HOUSE/BUILDING
BURIAL GROUNDS
• Everything created before by an artist was
automatically circulated in the operations of society.
• It was not integral for an art object that the identity
of the maker be known.
• It did not take long before this changed.
The Artisans and the Guilds

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 How do museums help in the
survival of artistic and creative
production?
Magnificent structures that are often
appreciated not only for their
historical significance but also for
their aesthetic characteristics that
render them UNIQUE become tourist
destinations.
• They become unique because of the materials,
medium, and principle behind their process of
creation.
• Another factor that contributes in preserving them is
the emergence of technology and knowledge of
conserving these structures.
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• In the past, craftsmen and
builders did not have
sophisticated terminologies
and principles that
architects, scientists, and
engineers abide by today.
• However, in their time, they
fulfilled the roles of a
draftsman, architect,
engineer, and a builder.
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• What they had was a SENSE ON HOW MATERIALS
BEHAVED, how the ENVIRONMENT, LIGHT, and,
WEATHER patterns affected the structure, and other
more intuitive principles of creation.
• Includes experimentation and luck.
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• These challenges led to a kind of formalization
of craft education in which regulation was set
in place.
• Skills qualification was needed for an
apprentice to register under a particular craft
guild.
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• These guilds were prevalent during the Middle
Ages (13th-15th Century A.D.) in different
towns.
• These guild included shoemakers, textile
workers, glass workers, carpenters, carvers,
masons, armorers, and weapon makers.
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• The commitment to work together as a
collective then grew in the practice of artists
(rather than ground in success).
• Guilds were a type of social fellowship, an
association structured with rules, customs,
rights, and responisbilities.
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• Since there is a lifetime commitment in a
certain guild, an artisan develops immense
skill and expertise in his craft.
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• A master artisan would be open to hiring
APPRENTICES who would be under his
tutelage and instruction.
• In these guilds, both artistry and technology
flourished.
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• Knowledge and skills were then transferred
through manuals and publications.
• These include the principles, processes, and
tricks of the trade.
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• The problem with these print materials is that
they are done cheaply and that the knowledge
of production was difficult to put into words,
especially when explaining a particular step or
process.
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